The Vann Settlement, also known as the King Vann
African Settlement, was situated on Buckner’s Prairie in William Rabb
League #46. Activities in the settlement centered around the school and
church. The Berean Baptist Church was organized by members of the
Shiloh Baptist Church of Cedar Lane, and the group first met in the Vann
Settlement schoolhouse.

Harriet Spencer “went to the school at the Vann
Settlement school which was situated about a block behind her present
home which is directly behind the Berean church. The school property
was given to the settlement by her grandfather, [Ransom] Edison.”

In 1894-1895 Matagorda County school census lists the
following families as having children of school age attending the Vann
school: Scott Glascow, William Green, Sam Norris, Catherine Stanford,
Watt Eddison, Joe Sorrell, Rose Gatson, King Vann, Ransom Eddison, Sr.,
Jack Eddison, Hester Washington, and Charles Gatson.